At 08:01 AM 12/12/1998 -0800,
>>Joel wrote:
>> >I really think it is very difficult to achieve fine art quality B&W in the
>> >35mm format, at least when your main favored subjects are landscapes. I
>> >didn't have the dough to make the leap to MF, so I just stayed with
slides.
>>
Then said Matthias:
>> I think that the advantage of the medium format is greater in colour slides
>> than in black and white. If you extend the 35mm format, the results in
>> black and white can be great, for example if you use modern films with
>> t-crystals or the kodak technical pan as picture film (there are special
>> developers to achieve pictures from this document film).
>
Hi Matthias:
I'm sure you are right. What's good for the goose is good for the gander,
as we say. However, I wasn't dissatisfied with the results I was getting
with Kodachrome and printing on Cibachrome; but I was dissatisfied with the
B&W results I was getting with almost every film in 35mm format. This was
of course 10 years ago.
Thank you for the tip on technical pan. I have one B&W photo posted in the
Olympus gallery using T-Max film which I fancy is OK. I'm planning to get
back into B&W landscape and try some of these new media.
On the "Which Camera On a Desert Island" thread -- the OM-1. I have a
weakness for these like some people have for stray cats. And they treat me
better. The "can't find a battery" objection is now obsolete (depending
where you're located), since John H. of Camtech can convert them to work
with 357's for next to nothing.
Cheers,
Joel
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